Libelling against a private man is a moral offence; but when it is against a government, it tends to the destruction of it. - John Holt

We cannot alter the law, we are bound by our oaths to proceed according to the law as it is at present.

Actual perceptible damage is not indispensable as the foundation of an action; it is sufficient to show the violation of a right, in which case the law will presume damage.

We are not to issue process here as instruments or conduit-pipes, but judicially as Judges: and it will not be an objection to say, that we may award process at all hazards, and let the party grieved come after and plead to it; for we shall never grant an ill-writ, that the party may avoid it in pleading.